arXiv Computation and Language
Oct 22

AfriBED: a Speech Recognition Bias Evaluation Dataset for Low Resource African Languages

AfriBED is a newly released speech recognition bias evaluation dataset focused on two low‑resource African languages, Bemba and Nyanja. It contains 9 hours of Bemba speech from 80 speakers (3,928 utterances) and about 18 hours of Nyanja speech from 127 speakers (6,260 utterances). Baseline experiments show the data can be used to detect and quantify gender and speaker‑type bias in ASR systems for these languages.

By Claytone Sikasote, Hussein Suleman, Jan Buys
arXiv Computer Vision
Sep 17

Face-voice Association across LAnguages and Gender (FLAG) 2027 Challenge Evaluation Plan

arXiv:2609.17913v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Face--voice association models may rely on language or gender cues in the voice rather than on speaker-specific voice characteristics, which can lead t...

By Marta Moscati, Swapnil Khandoker, Muhammad Saad Saeed, Shah Nawaz, Fatima Noor, Rohan Kumar Das, Mubashir Noman, Junaid Mir, Muhammad Haroon Yousaf, Khalid Malik, Markus Schedl